Emily Drake is studying palliative care experiences of young people with cancer.
“Understanding what patients experience will allow for healthcare providers to act with more tact and compassion when caring for this population.”
@EK_Drake
If you have been diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 18-39, you need to know that there is a whole community of people, supports and resources out there just for you and the unique challenges you may be facing. Young adulthood is when a lot of major life events normally take place for people. […]
As I write this, I am looking out a library window and watching waves ripple across the Arctic Ocean. At the beginning of my doctoral degree, I wouldn’t have believed you if you had told me that I would end up studying in a small city past the Arctic Circle. Yet here I am after […]
Our community in Nova Scotia is once again navigating a natural disaster, our second major event in less than a year. Over the past three years, many Nova Scotians have witnessed and directly experienced an incredible number of traumatic events. These events not only impact the health and wellness of our communities, they also heighten […]
Across the span of a few decades, we’ve gone from the horrific sound of dial-up internet and the stress of tying up our phone lines in order to get online, to needing to be reminded that we must take breaks from our phones at night to improve our sleep hygiene. Advances in technology have fundamentally […]
As an elder millennial, I remember a life before social media and the introduction of these platforms during my teenage years. While memories from the early days of ICQ and MSN Messenger may be a bit cringeworthy – over the past eleven years, modern social media channels have allowed me to build a professional network, […]
